Guns and Gun Control

Why We Can’t Have Nice Things—Like Gun Control

Why We Can’t Have Nice Things—Like Gun Control Why We Can’t Have Nice Things—Like Gun Control

Gun extremists in Congress, heavily backed by weapons manufacturers and the NRA, wield wildly disproportionate influence.

Oct 8, 2015 / The Editors

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Letters From the October 26, 2015, Issue Letters From the October 26, 2015, Issue

Papal buzzkill… sister act… Bern, baby, bern… fuzzy math?… Greider the great…

Oct 8, 2015 / Our Readers and Bryce Covert

Comix Nation

Comix Nation Comix Nation

Oct 8, 2015 / Jen Sorensen

Ben Carson

Ben Carson Just Keeps Getting More Awful. Why? Ben Carson Just Keeps Getting More Awful. Why?

The mild-mannered reactionary used to be the anti-Trump. Now he’s one-upping him on guns. This won’t end well.

Oct 7, 2015 / Joan Walsh

Hillary Clinton Is Running to Bernie Sanders’s Left on This One Issue

Hillary Clinton Is Running to Bernie Sanders’s Left on This One Issue Hillary Clinton Is Running to Bernie Sanders’s Left on This One Issue

Clinton just came out with a tough plan to tighten gun laws. Will Sanders stick to his guns—or try a new approach?

Oct 5, 2015 / Joan Walsh

2015 NRA convention

Tactical Experts Destroy the NRA’s Heroic Gunslinger Fantasy Tactical Experts Destroy the NRA’s Heroic Gunslinger Fantasy

The last thing a chaotic crime scene needs is more untrained civilians carrying guns.

Oct 5, 2015 / Joshua Holland

The Oregon Sheriff’s Position on Gun Control Is More Radical Than We Think

The Oregon Sheriff’s Position on Gun Control Is More Radical Than We Think The Oregon Sheriff’s Position on Gun Control Is More Radical Than We Think

Sheriff John Hanlin’s infamous 2013 letter to Biden echoes many themes of the radical antigovernment right.

Oct 2, 2015 / George Zornick

Tom Tomorrow Toon

What Keeps Right-Wingers Up at Night? What Keeps Right-Wingers Up at Night?

The very real fear of gay marriage and children’s science projects.

Sep 29, 2015 / Tom Tomorrow

John Fetterman

This Tattooed, Head-shaven, Straight-talking Mayor Wants to Be the Next Senator From Pennsylvania This Tattooed, Head-shaven, Straight-talking Mayor Wants to Be the Next Senator From Pennsylvania

John Fetterman talks inequality, immigration, drug legalization, same-sex marriage, “bittergate,” and how to revive post-industrial America.

Sep 25, 2015 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

The Second Amendment Was Never Meant to Protect an Individual’s Right to a Gun

The Second Amendment Was Never Meant to Protect an Individual’s Right to a Gun The Second Amendment Was Never Meant to Protect an Individual’s Right to a Gun

How the Supreme Court upended the well-established meaning of the Second Amendment.

Sep 23, 2015 / Feature / Dorothy Samuels

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